Saddam Hussein is being held under
the terms of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said a day after the deposed
Iraqi leader was captured near his hometown of Tikrit.
“He would be accorded the protections for the time being of
a prisoner of war and certainly his treatment would be governed
by the Geneva Convention,” Rumsfeld said in an interview late
yesterday. Hussein’s treatment is “going to end up discussed by
the coalition at a high level and lawyers will be involved,”
Rumsfeld said.
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Hussein, 66, was captured on Saturday hiding at a farm near
Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad. U.S.
President George W. Bush said he will “face the justice he
denied to millions.” Hussein denied Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction, telling interrogators, “the U.S. dreamed them up
itself to have a reason to go to war with us.”
The ousted dictator had been on the run for more than eight
months, since a U.S.-led coalition toppled his regime in a three-
week war in April. The coalition warned that his capture won’t
immediately end attacks on allied forces by Hussein loyalists or
foreign fighters who have hampered efforts to stabilize and
rebuild Iraq.
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